Matt Nappo

Matthew Nappo

Computer Science and Mathematics undergraduate student at the University of Rochester interested in distributed computing and systems.

Email: ["mnappo", "u.rochester.edu"].join("@")
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My recent interests: Compilers Rust Abstract Algebra & Applications to CS Serverless High-performance computing GPU Programming	Favorite books: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter) But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone (Scott) The Rust Book Applied Algebra for the Computer Sciences (Arthur Gill) Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Petzold) Category Theory for Computing Science (Barr-Wells)
Past projects: GPU-Accelerated Ant Colony Optimization Engine (code) Rust implementation of Paxos (code) Personal Keyserver/secret store (Rust, CapnProto) (code) Full-stack Social Media App (Go, ReactJS, REST) (code)	Current projects: Serverless machine learning inference platform Distributed Filesystem protocol (Rust, libp2p) Hypercube networking library in Rust

Favorite Courses:

Computation and Formal Systems: FSAs, CFGs, formal languages, parsers, relational database formalism)
Parallel and Distributed Systems: Lock-free data structures, Paxos, multithreading, MPI, CUDA, semaphores)
Computer Organization: Virtual memory, cache coherence, computer architecture, memory allocators)
Electronic Devices and Circuits: BJTs, MOSFETs, diodes, semiconductor physics)